Chapter 6. Answering Sartre. Paul Tillich and the ‘Socrates of Nothingness’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Abbreviations IX
4. Acknowledgements XI
5. Foreword XIII
6. Introduction: Returning to Tillich 1
7. Chapter 1. Which Kant? Whose Idealism? Paul Tillich’s Philosophical Training Reappraised 13
8. Chapter 2. Tillich and Participation 31
9. Chapter 3. Compromised Correlation? Experience in Paul Tillich’s Concept of Correlation 41
10. Chapter 4. Tillich’s Account of Love. Re-visiting Self-less Love 53
11. Chapter 5. Kairos, History, and Religion. Some Insights on Tillich’s Understanding of Revelation in Dialogue with Karl Barth 63
12. Chapter 6. Answering Sartre. Paul Tillich and the ‘Socrates of Nothingness’ 73
13. Chapter 7. Is Green the Colour of our Redemption? 87
14. Chapter 8. Tillich for Today’s Church. Self-critique, Self-transcendence, and the New Reality 97
15. Chapter 9. The Sacred Art of Teaching. Paul Tillich on Place, Boundary, and Pedagogy 105
16. Chapter 10. Paul Tillich, Salvation, and Big, Unnecessary, Crazy, Travel Adventure 113
17. Chapter 11. “One can distinguish two ways of approaching God: the way of overcoming estrangement and the way of meeting a stranger.” Paul Tillich’s Engagement with Buddhism 125
18. Chapter 12. Two Forms of Dialectic within Tillich’s History of Religion 141
19. Chapter 13. Schleiermacher and Tillich on Judaism: A Structural Comparison 151
20. Chapter 14. Paul Tillich, Being Itself, and the Structure of Vedantic Panentheism 163
21. Chapter 15. Paul Tillich and the ‘Dark Night of Faith’ as Mystical Experience 175
22. Epilogue: A Dinner Speech Tillich in Transition 187
23. Contributors’ Details 201
24. Bibliography 205
25. Index 217